Security Insights
Deep dives, expert analysis, and practical guidance on exposure management, adversarial validation, and the future of AI-driven exposure management.
42,900 OpenClaw Exposed Control Panels and Why You Should Care
Over the past two weeks, most coverage around Moltbot and OpenClaw has chased the flashy angle. One-click exploits, remote code execution, APT chatter, scary screenshots. Meanwhile, security teams are doing what they always do when a new tool gets hit. Patch, block ports, rotate keys. That's necessa
Root Detection in Android Apps - Security Benefits, Challenges, and Implementation Strategies
Among the most debated questions in the constantly changing mobile application development, whether to include root detection in the application is a seemingly important choice to both developers and security teams. This is not just a technical option, but it has far-reaching consequences in terms o
Thick Client Penetration Testing Guide
A field guide to thick client penetration testing: decompiling .NET with dnSpy, Frida auth hooks, named-pipe DACL abuse, and the report-grade findings that come out of it.
How Application Penetration Testing Prevents Real-World Breaches
Applications are prime targets for attackers, and breaches often start with a single vulnerability. Application penetration testing identifies, validates, and helps remediate these weaknesses before they are exploited. Modern PTaaS integrates with DevSecOps and CTEM, providing continuous validation,
How One Phishing Email Compromised 18 npm Packages and Billions of Installs
On September 8, 2025, a single phishing email triggered one of npm’s most damaging supply chain attacks, compromising 18 popular JavaScript packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads. By tricking a maintainer into revealing credentials and 2FA codes, attackers injected crypto-stealing malware i
Serverless Architecture Penetration Testing
Serverless penetration testing for Lambda and Functions: event injection from non-HTTP triggers with real payloads, role-equals-blast-radius, dependency and secrets risk with real output, a findings table, and the per-function role scoping that contains it.
DevSecOps Pipeline Checklist → are you doing enough for security in CI/CD?
If It Builds, It Should Be Secure Let’s be honest, your CI/CD pipeline probably wasn’t designed with security in mind. It was built to ship fast, to keep developers happy, and to support constant change. That’s okay. Most pipelines start like that. But now you’re getting bigger. Or audited. Or breac
How to Intercept Traffic from Proxy-Unaware Mobile Apps
Set Burp as the device proxy, open the app, and see nothing. The app ignores the system proxy. Here is how to force its traffic through your proxy with iptables NAT, DNSChef, and VPN redirection, then read it.
Mobile SDK Security Testing Methodology
A third-party SDK runs inside your process with your permissions and your identity. This methodology shows how to isolate it, hook its exact classes with Frida, and prove what data actually leaves the device.
Mobile App Penetration Testing Checklist (OWASP MASVS)
A MASVS-aligned mobile pentest checklist that runs highest-yield first: storage and network before resilience, with the real apktool, jadx, MobSF, and objection output you read at each step.
What Is Mobile App Penetration Testing? (iOS and Android)
Mobile app penetration testing attacks the iOS or Android client the way an adversary does: decompiling the binary, reading what it writes to disk, and rewriting its logic at runtime. Here is how a real engagement runs.
WordPress Security and Penetration Testing Guide
WordPress runs 40% of the web, and the core almost never lets you in. Plugins do. Here is how to pentest a WordPress site with wpscan and harden what attackers actually hit.